Title: Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman

Author: Kraus, Christina S John Marincola, Christopher Pelling (eds)

Publisher: Oxford University Press; Publication Date: 2010

Hardcover; ISBN: 9780199558681

Volumes: 1; Pages: 420

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This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Latin at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.Table of ContentsIntroductionI. Author and Audience1. Narrative Problems in Thucydides Book I, John Moles2. Divide and Conquer: Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus3. Scipio the Matchmaker, Jane Chaplin4. Velleius Mythistoricus, T. P. WisemanII. Quality and Pleasure5. Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: a Note on Cic. De Orat. 2.262 and Lucilius 173M, Anna Chahoud6. Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias (Thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M), Elizabeth A. Meyer7. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii, S. P. Oakley8. Amores 1.1-5 , David West9. Rome and Persia 357-9: The Role of Tamsapor, Robin SeagerIII. Poetry and Politics10. Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods and the Thematic Unity of Georgics I, Damien Nelis11. Eros and Empire: Virgil and the Historians on Civil War, John Marincola12. Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace, Denis Feeney13. Juvenal and the Delatores, J. G. F. Powell14. Roma and her Tutelary Deities: Names and Associations, Francis CairnsIV. Tacitus Reviewed15. Seven Passages of the Annals (And One of Manilius), Edward Courtney16. The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28), Rhiannon Ash17. Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals, D. S. Levene18. Voices of Resistance, Richard Rutherford19. The Art of Losing: Tacitus and the Disaster Narrative, Elizabeth Keitel20. The Historian's Presence, or There and Back Again, Cynthia Damon21. The Spur of Fame: Tacitus Annals 4.37-8, Christopher Pelling